Our Services – Residential
Residential
Recycling
Waste Management collects and processes more municipal recyclables than any other company in North America. We do it through working partnerships with local communities and municipalities. From collection to processing to marketing, Waste Management and its wholly owned subsidiary WM Recycle America are the partners your community can count on for economically and environmentally sustainable recycling programs. While some communities rely on WM Recycle America to handle marketing in support of municipal collection and processing, or processing and marketing in support of municipal collection, we can handle any or all portions of the recycling process.
From collection to processing to marketing, Waste Management and WM Recycle America are the partners your community can count on for sustainable recycling programs such:
In addition to understanding the importance of a program that is economically feasible, we also understand the benefit of programs that are easily workable for your residents. That's why we've integrated the latest sorting technologies in many of our facilities, enabling us to provide single-stream recycling, which allows customers to mix recyclable paper, plastic and glass in one bin. Residential single-stream programs have greatly increased the recycling rates, recovering as much as three times the amount of recyclable materials.
